Professional Experience

2002 - present, Staff Physician, Department of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, City of Hope, Duarte, CA

2002 - present, Staff Physician, Department of Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, City of Hope, Duarte, CA

1998 - 2001, Fellow, Hematology/Oncology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

1995 - 1998, Resident, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

1993 - 1994, Resident and Chief Resident (1994) in Internal Medicine, Iizuka Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan

1991 - 1993, Resident, Kumamoto University Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan

Education and Training

1991, Kumamoto University School of Medicine , M.D., Medicine


This is an abbreviated document. Full CV available upon request. Information on this page may be self-reported and is subject to change at any time. Last updated: 10/08.

Honors and Awards 

2008 - 2009, Recipient, Tim Nesvig Lymphoma Fellowship Award

2000, Fellows Travel Award for the Tenth Annual Mayo Clinic Jacksonville Hematology/Oncology Reviews. Intensive immunosuppression with high-dose cyclophosphamide and autologous CD34+ selected hematopoietic cell support for treatment of chronic refractory autoimmune thrombocytopenia (AITP): Jacksonville, FL